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Leicester: Brockhampton, 1962. 1st. hardback. Good, 1st edition, no d/j, printed boards, bumping and chipping on spine; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked but some rough edges; dedication plate on ffep.. 12mo (190 x 130 / 7_"" x 5""). Biggles and Bertie are on the track of stolen top secret documents that in the wrong hands could mean another war. They face snakes and South American jungle.

London: Brockhampton Press. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. (1962). Hardcover. Chip and abrasion to front endpaper. Inscription and rubber stamp on front endpaper. ; Illustrated papered boards. 168, [1] pages. Page dimensions: 184 x 118mm. A Biggles novel. "Top secret documents missing and with them a nuclear research scientist demanding one million dollars [. . .]" Number 62 in "The Biggles Books" series. .

London: Brockhampton Press, 1962. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. slight cock to spine. 168 pages. List of biggles titles glued into front endpapers. Price clipped dj - also slighty trimmed to allow view of aforementioned list. No 62 book. Green cloth boards

London: Children's Book Club, 1962. 1st ed. thus. Nice copy. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket 168pp., Nice copy in bright blue boards in a nice unclipped dust jacket with light tape-mark. This childrenÕs Book Club edition has a completely different dust jacket (& much more interesting) to the Brockhampton edition. These editions appear to be rather scarce

Leicester: Brockhampton, 1962. (1st edition). Nice copy. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket 168pp., colour frontis., colour illusts., Genuine first edition. Scarce

Leicester: Brockhampton Press, 1962. An Adventure of Biggles of the Air Police. Illustrated by Leslie Stead. Pp. 168+[1](advertisement, printed on recto of lower free endpaper), coloured frontispiece; cr. 8vo; red papered boards, spine lettered and ruled in black, top fore-corner of upper board slightly bruised; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed and split, several small ink marks to list of books on back panel; small piece torn from bottom fore-corner of pp. 35/6 and 61/2, a couple of spots of foxing and occasional slight soiling; Brockhampton Press, Leicester, 1962. First edition, variant boards? *The price on the dust wrapper (8/6) is for the first edition, which is usually found in green boards.

2024-05-08 11:28:33: London: Brockhampton Press, 1962. [Boy's adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.168; [1], advertisement. With colour frontispiece by Leslie Stead. Publisher's green cloth with titles and publisher's imprint in yellow to spine. Pictorial jacket priced 8s 6d. Simply a lovely fine copy. Biggles travels to Peru in pursuit of a rogue scientist, who has stolen nuclear secrets. On the way, he becomes entangled in the orchid trade.